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Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being QUOTES

Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being QUOTES

1 " Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these forms, because teaching is. We teach not only by our words and assignments but also by the manner of our words and the ways we ourselves already embody the assignments we give. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being

2 " Something in me hates this confession. I do not think that I am alone in this. Twitter, Facebook, virtual conferencing—these allow us the illusion of being somewhere other than where we are. Positively we have a voice in places otherwise absent to us. But we type on our keyboards while sitting in a chair where we are—the local knowledge and work of the day in our place awaiting our presence. The danger here is that it allows us to give our gifts without giving ourselves. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being

3 " Therefore, those of you searching for something larger, faster, and more significant, who feel that if you could just be somewhere else doing something else as somebody else, then your life would really matter—Jesus has come to confound you. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being

4 " Every moment of obscure service makes the hall of fame in heaven. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being

5 " Patience says to your empty hands, God is here. Patience looks the worst in the face and says, “God will somehow be with us still. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being

6 " We needn’t take our work with us. Workless in the evening matters. In order to learn how to rest in life, we need the spiritual grace to set down our work and to rest when an ordinary evening arrives. An inability to do this where we are in our ordinary place on a given and routine evening will render it nearly impossible to cultivate a life of stability “out there” amid the chatter and the frenzy. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being

7 " How is it that Jesus followers often have little stamina for working through with others what unsettles them? We can often take Bible classes and quote from the Bible, but we still know very little about patience. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being

8 " Only God is worthy of fame, and that same God humbled himself and became flesh and walked among us. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being

9 " Anything wondrous we hope our parishioners or counselees to see must come from his illumination. If this humility chafes, take note. Like a woman who strikes a match to light her way through the jungle, is a person who believes that seeing with her eyes will illumine all things. The famed Welshman Christmas Evans was a one-eyed preacher. The point is, in some ways we all are. We squint through our days. It is time to acknowledge the fog through which we drive. The world is braille. There is a reason that business must discuss what it calls “risk management.” Because “even the very wise cannot see all ends.”8 Therefore, ministry begins with a cry that becomes a prayer to Jesus. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being

10 " God has given you himself to surrender to and love. This means that to daily orient your life toward a moment-by-moment relationship with God is a great thing that brings glory to him. You needn’t be anywhere else than where you are, because Jesus is there too. 2) God has given you a handful of persons that you are meant to love. This means you are meant for relationships with people. To enter this way of love for neighbor is to do a great thing that glorifies God. You needn’t become somebody else or overlook those people who are right in front of you. The Lord is at work here doing great things. 3) God will give you a place to inhabit, which means that you get to become attentive to what is there where you are. This means that to dwell knowledgeably and hospitably in and toward the place God gives you is to glorify him. God will give you a few things that he intends for you to do in your inhabited place and with those people. To do what God gives you to do is to strengthen the common good and to glorify him. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being

11 " There is a strange sweetness that can be found amid the answerless ache of an impending threat. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being

12 " Greatness, even in ministry, cannot escape humanity. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being